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in this Synopsis
of the Friday Sermon

Huzuraba delivered this historic Friday Sermon from
Qadian. He said it was with the grace of Allah and through His enabling alone
that he
was making the address from the beautiful and spiritually-charged hamlet
(hometown) of the Promised Messiahas as his Khalifa and
representative for the first time. The second noteworthy aspect of the sermon
that was a source of delight and spiritual elation was that in the message
of the Promised Messiahas being transmitted live from Qadian
- via the sermon - for the first time on MTA, the revelation of the Promised
Messiahas - “I will cause your message to reach the
corners of the earth” – which has been fulfilled in many ways
before, was being fulfilled with a new glory.

Huzuraba said the
blessing of MTA was an endowment for the Community as a result of the prayers
of the Promised Messiahas and that it was
a magnificent realization of his prayers.

Huzuraba said since his arrival in
India he was being asked about his feelings about visiting Qadian. Huzuraba
said Qadian is the hometown of the Promised
Messiahas and as such each Ahmadi has an exclusive and
emotional affinity with it and as one gets nearer and closer to this place
one’s
emotions are heightened.

Huzuraba explained that the Promised Messiahas has taught us the ways and means to traverse the spiritual
stages with reference to
the spiritual connection an Ahmadi has with him. Observing the spiritually-charged
atmosphere of Qadian Huzuraba remarked that most fortunate were the inhabitants
of Qadian that they lived in a place where the streets once had the honour
of the Promised Messiah’sas blessed feet walking
on them.

Huzuraba mentioned and acknowledged the “dervishes” of
Qadian who made great sacrifices, a few of these are still living although
their lives
are not active anymore. With reference to the ancestors of these indigenous
inhabitants who made great sacrifices for this place as well as those
who have settled here at a later stage – about whom Huzuraba said
he had the favourable opinion that they had made the move for the love
of the Promised
Messiahas – Huzuraba enjoined that they should
develop their spirituality to such an extent that it is evident.

It would be evident,
Huzuraba said, if prayer and Istaghfar is made and sincere effort is made
to bring about pure changes in oneself. These
steps most
certainly draw Allah’s grace; Allah enhances one in matters of
faith as well as takes care of one’s needs of this world.

Huzuraba
remarked that when one turns to Allah with absolute sincerity one’s
worldly wishes diminish in any case. He related an incident where a life-devotee
from Ghana once said to him that he found other life-devotees to be in
a better financial situation than himself. Huzuraba said he told that person
to engage in Istaghfar, as a result of him paying heed to Huzuraba’s
advise not only did his worldly quest diminished rather his sense of
sacrifice for others increased.

Re-iterating Huzuraba said that the measure
of taqwa of people of Qadian should be such that those who move away
from here visibly reflect the
purity of
the Promised Messiahas in their appearance, their demeanour
and their piety of heart, that their manner clearly conveys that they
hail from a spiritual environment. Huzuraba said the new converts who come
to
Qadian certainly look up to the model of the local people especially
as they are
the families of the esteemed elders.

Huzuraba said it is Allah’s help
that we need to lessen the love of this world, to develop in our faith,
to abide by Allah’s commandments and
for every other task; he enjoined the prayer from Surah Al Fatihah (1:5)
in order to seek these objectives.

Huzuraba said worship of God is conditional
with one’s obligation to
fulfil the rights of mankind and that we should be most alert not to
let slip in these commitments. Huzuraba said we should all be heedful whether
we
are sincerely repentant after committing a mistake and do we really seek
Allah’s help with sincere remorse. Huzuraba said at times people
make mistakes and the system of the Community takes disciplinary action,
afterwards
they are pardoned. Some times the mistake is repeated and the disciplinary
action is repeated. On occasion the situation gets complex and then the
matter is left with God.

Huzuraba explained from this the world should not
assume that God forbid there was something wrong in Qadian. He said
in any society if there
are only a
few erroneous people it is more noticeable and he said that he believed
in counsel ahead of time and does not believe that mistake should necessarily
precede counsel.

Huzuraba said Qadian was replete with sincerity; however the
more exposure it received the greater should be the measure of taqwa of
its inhabitants.

Quoting from the extracts of the writings of the Promised
Messiahas Huzuraba said Istaghfar is to make an entreaty
to God that one’s
human frailties are not exposed, that with His power God covers one’s
natural faults and covers any sin that one might have committed; the
essence of Istaghfar is to protect one from one’s natural shortcomings.
The Promised Messiahas said “Istaghfar is to seek the
beneficence of the Divine attribute of All-Subsisting and All-Sustaining
God”.

Huzuraba prayed that may the inhabitant’s
of Qadian thus seek Istaghfar and may they make entreaties to Him to
accept their Istaghfar and to
diminish the satanic inclinations of the nafs (self) and may our hearts
and minds
be perceptive to the message of the Promised Messiahas “So,
arise and repent and please your Master with good works”.

In conclusion
Huzuraba asked for prayers for the huge number of people who wish to
go to Qadian because of his blessed presence there and have
not
yet obtained entry visas that they may obtain visas and may their pious
wish
to visit this pure hamlet be fulfilled. Huzuraba asked those who are
seeking to travel to Qadian to pray for themselves as well.

Huzuraba also informed
those travelling from the West to Qadian to come prepared for their basic
needs, specially their bedding. Huzuraba said
it gets cold
in Qadian and arrangements on the scale that people in the West are
used to cannot be met in Qadian. Once in India, Huzuraba also cautioned
people
about eating out as the meat served in dishes is not always halal
and tayyab (clean,
wholesome).